Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unchristian Idea. McIntire seldom misses an opportunity to embarrass and harass his opponent. A few days before the Assembly of the World Council of Churches met at Amsterdam last August, McIntire was in Amsterdam holding his own meeting of the "International Council of Christian Churches." Whenever he could get startled reporters to listen, he fulminated that the leaders of the World Council "include radical pacifists and socialists . . . This assembly is going to serve Communist ends." On such occasions, the American Council's impressive-sounding name often wins attention...
...individual awards themselves--a quick glance over the past 20 years will show some selections which should even embarrass some of the moguls. However, that can be said of any group which insists on awarding prizes to its contemporaries. Of Hollywood's handful of geniuses--Garbo, Chaplin, Disney, Welles, The Marx Brothers, and W.C. Fields--only Disney has been recognized by the Academy. And the real joke about that is that Disney's awards have always been "Special Awards." This puts him in the same weird position as was Olivier in 1946 when he was given a "Special Award...
When this bill was only a mad gleam in Rankin's eye a few months ago, few people were disturbed. It looked like Rankin was just going to try to embarrass the Administration by yowping about veterans' rights in his Veterans' Affairs Committee. But the colorful statesman from Mississippi was able to ram his project through the committee--most of the members stalked out of the "hearing" in protest against the chairman's arbitrary tactics--and he was also able to bring it to the House floor on Tuesday...
...would appear that conservative Republicans have scrambled aboard a pretext in order to embarrass their opponents. Such hypocritical strawsnatching has set a queasy precedent for the future for the present Congress. If Tory Republicans earnestly determine to make the Eightieth Congress another "do-nothing" session, they can at least block important items of the Fair Deal, with the aid of fellow-conservatives from the South. And this would be in spite of the GOP party platform which agrees with the Fair Deal in such significant areas as civil rights. It looks as though the Old Guarders hate the Administration more...
...move calculated to embarrass the U. S. in Korea, the Russians announced at year...